Boy with bucket list to croon with ‘Jersey Boys’ backstage on Broadway

Robbie Twible, 12, gets to cross one more item off his bucket list next month, when he meets the cast of "Jersey Boys." He knows every song by heart and can mimic some dance move, too. (Kathy Kmonicek/Kathy Kmonicek)

He made it to the big leagues last week, and now this brave young man will boogie his way to Broadway.

Robbie Twible, 12, who is battling a rare and deadly illness, will cross another item off his bucket list next month when he meets the cast of "Jersey Boys," thanks to the Daily News, which helped orchestrate the rendezvous.

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"He's going to lose his mind," Robbie's mother, Kathy, said of the dream meeting.

"He's a huge fan of Broadway," she added. "He can name every show, where it's playing, where it started, what theater it's playing in."

The theater-loving sixth grader from East Meadow suffers from epidermolysis bullosa, a rare and painful skin condition that causes blisters to form all over his body.

He eats with the help of a feeding tube and endures excruciating treatments every day, his parents say, but his passion for performance helps him power through.

"He'll be in pain one second and he'll start singing the next," Kathy said. "He loves the stage. It blows my mind. Sometimes he makes his cousins sing backup."

He'll get to croon backstage with real vocalists from the Broadway hit, the story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, as soon as he picks a date, show officials said. Four seats and a backstage pass await him at the August Wilson Theatre.

"I feel fantastic," Robbie said. "I've been singing and listening to them for two years. I never thought this would happen."

Robbie Twible met his hero, New York Mets third baseman David Wright, last week. (Howard Simmons/New York Daily News)

It'll be another dream-come-true for Robbie, who has already checked two items off a wish list that includes a visit to Disney World and joining the Mets for batting practice.

His biggest fantasy of fantasies is to appear on the "Ellen DeGeneres Show" with idol Justin Timberlake.

"Come on, Ellen!" he said. "I'm getting warmed up for you."

The talk show host is on vacation for the summer, her spokeswoman said.